"Fighting the war from the periphery: Latin America and the First World War"

MARÍA INÉS TATO

Río de Janeiro

Conferencia; International Conference Times of violence. The end of the World War I and the beginning of a new era; 2018

Programa de Pós-graduação em História Social da Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) - Instituto de Relações Internacionais da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Rio (PUC)

As a globalphenomenon, the First World War had repercussions that exceeded the belligerentcountries and affected societies distant from the European war and evenformally out of the conflict. In that sense, its impact wasnot limited to the military dimension, but also involved other aspects, fromeconomy to culture. Latin America was one of thoseperipheral regions profoundly shaken by the war. This paper aims to study the repercussions of the conflict in this subcontinent´s societies.